[Foss4g2012] Concerns on FOSS4G 2012 (Academic Track)

[xianfeng song]

Dear All,

Thank Kobben and ICA for their great efforts on a possible multi-year deal
for publishing in TGIS. We, all working for OSGEO, thank John Wilson and
TGIS very much for their past and present strong support to the foss4g
academic track. It is very kind of an IEEE fellow here to help contacting
IEEE for the publication of those good quality papers without being
accepted for a journal, so we still need some time, but not so far.

This year the publication issue comes a little earlier. In past events,
these works were often done during paper reviewing time, and it was Dr.
Helena and several other key persons who helped reviewing and contacting
journals like TGIS and Applied Geomatics with or without a title of
scientific committee. The committee members changes every year, but several
persons always are there to take care the track for many years.

The academic track in 2010 was ever co-organized by the Commission on Map
and the Internet of ICA, but now another Commission comes to take care, so
I feel a little bit puzzled too. Anyway, it is good that so many people
contribute to open source gis. If ICA could continue exploring some new
publication sources e.g. international journal of geographic information
science, meaning more publishing slots for our accepted papers, it would be
very interesting for osgeo to attract more gis researchers from
universities and research institutions.

The LOC will give a very short draft of committee chairs and members about
academic track, and circle it for further recommendations among those who
have been deeply involved in open source gis development or advocation in
the past foss4g conferences and its predecessor events (GIS-GRASS users or
Mapserver conferences a long time ago). I will let you all be informed.

Best regards,
Song


2012/1/13 Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl>

> Hi all,
>
> I send this email to you because I am puzzled and a bit concerned about
> the FOSS4G 2012 conference.
>
> I am so in general, but especially about the Academic Track that I have
> been trying to help organize. I have had enthusiastic replies and messages
> of support from most of you about this, and John Wilson of the
> Transactions in GIS journal has reacted positively on a possible
> multi-year deal for publishing.
>
> But from two "important players" I have had no feedback, namely from the
> local organizers and from OSGEO. The people I contacted for that were mr
> Xianfeng Song (mentioned as the local committee lead for academic track)
> and mr Jeff McKenna (being the Chair of the OSGEO Conference committee).
>
> The former has answered to my first email that "the LOC ever had a meeting
> deciding to follow the customs to invite again those who ever working for
> past academic tracks. To encourage more academic paper submission (...)
> recommend to publish an IEEE conference proceeding.". I replied with a
> question on how definite that was and if any contacts had been established
> with IEEE, but until now have not had further communication.
>
> I am aware that the Christmas Holidays were around and understandably many
> people are hard to reach in that time. But because I also notice that the
> 2012 web page (2012.foss4g.org) is still barren and that the last message
> on the foss4g2012 mailing list (foss4g2012 at lists.osgeo.org) was on
> December 13 (by myself), I started to wonder what the status of the
> conference is at the moment.
>
> I had really wanted to send out a first Call for Papers before the New
> Year, but feel I still cannot do that now without positive feedback from
> OSGEO and the local organizers.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> --
> Barend Köbben (Senior Lecturer)
> ITC - University of Twente,
> Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
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